From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider (pfps@research.bell-labs.com)
Date: 10/17/01
Hi: I got the following back on our submission. Unfortunately, I think that I will have to pass this by Lucent's lawyers, as I have already had communication with Lucent's lawyers concering W3C and IP. They may want to go with different language. Those of you who have IP in the submission should look over this message and see whether what you can do. You might want to look at http://www.w3.org/Submission/2001/09/ for a different IP position. peter
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I'm sorry that this is taking so long, but I finally managed to get the relevant legal text and clarification on a few policies... We've got three constraints we need the DAML+OIL submission to meet: (1) Our policy is that tech reports use namespace names of the form http://www.w3.org/YYYY/... cf http://www.w3.org/1999/10/nsuri I looked into whether this policy applies to submissions, and it does. So please change the namespace to http://www.w3.org/2001/10/daml+oil (2) we need more explicit copyright license terms. I suggest that you ammend the submission request to include the following text, substituting each of the authors for [party]: [party] hereby grants to the W3C, a perpetual, nonexclusive, royalty-free, world-wide right and license under any [party] copyrights in this contribution to copy, publish and distribute the contribution, as well as a right and license of the same scope to any derivative works prepared by the W3C and based on, or incorporating all or part of the contribution. [Member Company] further agrees that any derivative works of this contribution prepared by the W3C shall be solely owned by the W3C. (3) we need assurance that noone will seek patent royalties. I suggest you ammend the submission request to say that this license is offered by each of the authors: Suggested W3C Royalty-Free Patent License Declaration 6 September 2001 http://www.w3.org/2001/09/rf-license.html p.s. feel free to forward this to joint-committe@daml.org -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ office: tel:+1-913-491-0501 mobile: mailto:connolly+pager@w3.org
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